Hays

Tommy Hays is an acclaimed Southern writer, whose fiction grows out of his emotional connections to places he’s lived and known—Greenville, South Carolina; Asheville, North Carolina; and Atlanta. His novel, The Marriage Bed, was published by Blair in March 2026. His prior novels are The Pleasure Was Mine (St. Martin’s Press 2005), In the Family […]
THE MARRIAGE BED, Tommy Hays
A freak accident coming on the heels of a startling revelation lays bare the very foundation of a marriage, leaving a husband and father to come to grips with his grief as he attempts to forge a new identity. Tommy Hays is the author of four novels, including The Pleasure Was Mine, and Lecturer Emeritus at […]
Orr

The author of six books, Elaine Neil Orr was born and grew up among the forests and rivers of Southwestern Nigeria. Her explorations of home and exile and spiritual connection are rooted in those rich formative years. She comes to the American South by way of that other South in West Africa. After devoting herself […]